How to submit empty text fields

[thomasv23303637]

Hello,

i am submitting form fields as XML format. According to documentation empty fields are submitted. This works for checkboxes but not for text fields. If they are empty they are not submitted, but they are needed by our software.

How can this be solved?

Best regards

Thomas

[thomasv23303637]

Really noone has an idea?

[try67]

You can use a script to insert a single space in all the empty fields before submitting the form, or you can submit them in another format.

[thomasv23303637]

Thanks. So i will accept that Acrobat just doesn't work as documented in that place. We will change our software, the script will probably be the simplest solution.

Best regards

Thomas

[Test Screen Name]

Solve it in your software.

[Test Screen Name]

Even if it is a bug and Adobe fix it, you will probably have to deal with end-users who have not upgraded. So making your software more forgiving is the best answer.

[Bernd Alheit]

Did you enable the entry "Include Empty Fields" ?

[thomasv23303637]

Thanks for the answer. I have never seen this dialog. The form is posted via javascript:

this.submitForm({

cURL: "http://127.0.0.1:31337/document",

cSubmitAs: "XML"

});

[try67]

Use:

this.submitForm({

cURL: "http://127.0.0.1:31337/document",

cSubmitAs: "XML",

bEmpty: true

});

[thomasv23303637]

Thanks, i have also tried this with no effect.

But i think it would not be too much effort to implement the javascript mentioned above to solve the problem

[Bernd Alheit · Accepted solution]

Try the "submit a form" action with XFDF.

[thomasv23303637]

Thank you, that works! Now we have the empty fields. Its different because now every tag is "<field>" but the structure and attributes are correct so we can work with this solution.

Best regards

Thomas

[try67]

Actually, that probably won't work. The documentation of this property says:

Note: If data is submitted as XDP, XML, or XFD (see the cSubmitAs

parameter, below), this parameter is ignored. All fields are submitted,

even fields that are empty. See aFields.

So I would say it's a bug.